Globalist Civilization Is Bound to Fall

T he Wanli Emperor ruined the noble intentions of the Ming dynasty’s founder, locked himself inside his palace, and indulged in the good life. He was obsessed with avoiding contact with townsfolk and, needless to say, their affairs, even 500 years before the coronavirus. Meanwhile, in Rome, after the death of Marcus Aurelius, the Empire staked its future in the hands of his son Commodus, who managed to ruin the good standing of the family business in record time. He was a paranoid, selfish, and reckless despot. And he died strangled, because at the time magnicide wasn’t frowned upon if the ruler was useless enough; this may have been brutal, immoral and unfair, if you will, but you must admit that it did contribute towards creating healthy competition and a drive for excellence within the political class.

What does this have to do with our modern-day travails? If you happened to look in this past week on the preening “statesmen” at the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Davos gathering, you might have seen vaguely familiar displays, competing with the Wanli Emperor’s nonsense and Commodus’s foolishness.

But first, an exercise in contrasts, if only to give a sense of the vast disconnect between people’s desperate needs and their leaders’ preposterous prescriptions.

It is an ordinary morning in the corner of Europe where I live, and in the cafeteria downstairs, a sign in the window says, “We only serve take-away.” For weeks now, local regulations have been prohibiting bars from opening to the public because of the pandemic. The owner of that cafeteria, a diminutive and talkative fellow whom we’ll call “G.,” has been enduring restrictions of all kinds for a year now. He has lost his father to the coronavirus (even after the Spanish president proclaimed in June that “we have beaten the virus”), he was not even allowed to attend the funeral, all of his waiters are on furlough, and the government continues to collect taxes from him as if his business were booming. He has to pay rent, water, and electricity on time, including the more than 50 percent of the bill that corresponds to green, red, and purple government taxes.

Now that what he earns at the cafe is not even enough to cover his expenses; now that he has not slept well for weeks and is overwhelmed by debts; now that he has heard about the suicides of several small businessmen in the last few weeks . . . he reads in the press the WEF meeting news and naturally takes an immediate interest in what the world leaders might say about his dreadful situation. A big announcement? A rescue plan? A little understanding? Not quite. Just more steps towards their big goal for 2030: “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.”

Here’s what he finds out, at a glance, are the priorities of the Davos divas, according to the information provided by TV news: combating carbon emissions (he tells me that the closest thing he has to carbon emissions in the bar right now is the tonic water); war against a cyber pandemic (he shrugs); elimination of borders and total globalization (thanks to which, EU countries don’t have vaccines and the U.K. does, he comments); and a CEOs’ alliance on climate change (this doesn’t look like it will make his rent any cheaper); along with the fight against systemic racism and more. The icing on the cake: In Davos, they present and applaud a study that claims compulsory confinement and enclosures have generated positive changes in about 80 percent of people. I imagine they are referring to 80 percent of the survivors.

Hardly a word about the terrible economic and psychological situation in which millions of people find themselves. Or about the reduction of individual freedoms because of the pandemic. Or about the massive bankruptcies. Or on how to accelerate vaccination worldwide. And certainly not a word condemning China for having concealed the disease or the World Health Organization for its complicity with the Chinese regime in the deceptions that led to the pandemic. Nothing. All that the world’s leaders are going to offer my friend and all of us who, in one way or another, are suffering the terrible consequences of the pandemic beyond the purely health-related are: green energy, all the -isms, more taxes, and a lot of “resilience,” whatever that means. The title of the meeting doesn’t leave much doubt about the intentions of world leaders either: “The Great Reset.” The problem with this ruling elite is that they have let Big Tech convince them that we work the same as one of Bill Gates’ damn blue screens — that we are mere machines which can be shut down and then rebooted with a simple Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

To top it all off, G. discovered on the news that the guest star at the Davos Forum is the same person whose country originated the coronavirus pandemic: Xi Jinping. Thanks to Joe Biden’s decision not to attend the event, and to instead send some kind of climate diplomat, all the limelight fell on the Chinese criminal, whose claim of world domination was merely met with passivity from all the others in attendance.

Xi Jinping also made some statements that have taken us all by surprise, and which I suppose are the result of long nights of watching the sky and slowly gulping down lizard liquor: “The world will never be the same as it was,” he said, revealing with these witty words a superior knowledge to which only he has had access, perhaps in direct conversation with the spirit of Mao and the mummy of Lenin. Thank you Xi. Thank you for your light. With you, the path is so much easier.

My friend from the bar, who is a bit naive, sneered to me, full of Mediterranean irony: “The only thing missing at this party is Greta Thunberg!” Poor guy. He couldn’t even finish the sentence. Immediately, she appeared on the screen, 18 years old, with her speech, dictating instructions to world leaders on how to avoid the hell into which she herself will throw all the bad guys who do not commune with the green creed and the climate esotericism.

So everyone’s here. Not a single member of centrist, leftist, media-serving elites, with their extreme-left allies, and all the sustainable, resilient, European idiots, is missing. The only ones who were not invited, who will not have a voice, one more year, are the normal people, the ones who pay for all this globalist and irrational extravagance, working themselves to the bone in the hope of saving their companies and their families in the hearts of America and Europe.

Supra-state organizations and Big Tech believe that their goal of Great Reset is within reach. But the collapse of this globalist civilization is closer than it seems. The gap between the common folk and political bureaucracies is widening every day. They have learned nothing from the Donald Trump phenomenon. And this second spring in economic limbo will be much more destabilizing for those governments that can’t move past lockdown culture.

Moral for enthusiastic progressives: Never talk about carbon-dioxide emissions, green taxes, resets, and blockchains to penniless workers who couldn’t give their kids breakfast that morning.